New England Literature and Culture
Course #: AMST 470L
Description:
A study of the New England literary tradition from about 1850 to the near present. How have writers and critics contested their differing versions of native grounds and reinvented the New England idea in their works? Consideration of such topics as Native American culture, Puritanism and Transcendentalism, slavery and Abolitionism, immigration and ethnicity, nationalism and regionalism, industrialization, and popular culture.
Pre Requisites: pre-req: ENGL 200, 201, or 202 and two 300/400-level courses